Agrippina the Younger (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Emma Southon and comedian Cariad Lloyd in first-century Rome to meet Agrippina the Younger. Empress, overbearing mother of the Emperor Nero and murderess, but how much of what has been written about this extraordinary woman is true? What does it really take to survive as a woman at the top of the Roman Empire? For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
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0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
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0:28.8	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
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0:41.6	Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:46.4	My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster.
0:50.3	And in this podcast we take a bit of serious and a sliver of silly to serve up a steaming hot
0:54.6	slice of history pie.
0:56.2	And today we are popping on our togas and tunics and journeying all the way back to classical
1:00.2	Rome, to the first century CE to be exact, to meet Agrippina the Younger.
1:04.8	An Empress, the mother of Emperor Nero, and one of the most astonishing women of the ancient
1:08.6	world.
1:09.6	And to help me separate the truth from the tattletails I'm joined by two very special guests.
1:14.1	In history corner, she has a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham and
1:17.9	is an expert on all things Roman.
1:20.3	She's the author of a magnificent new book called A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
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